World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm--Tom's Performance Guide
Ready for the launch of Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion tomorrow? Is your PC? We test 24 different graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia, CPUs from AMD and Intel, and compare DirectX 9 to DirectX 11, showing you which settings to use.
Textures: Projected Textures
You can either turn Projected Textures on or off. The tooltip reads, "enables the projecting of textures to the environment. Disabling this may greatly improve performance."
Don't disable it, though. As you can see below, I've cast Consecrate in both screen shots. In the first, you can't see the spell at all. In the second, you can. Without textures projected onto the environment, there's a fair chance you'll have trouble with Algalon, Lady Deathwhisper, Halion, and Sindragosa. Any fight where there is something on the ground that you need to avoid becomes significantly harder if you...well, can't see whatever it is you're supposed to be avoiding.
Oh no! Where's the consecrate?
Ah ha, there it is.
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